Wind and fading solar lead at 65% renewable share, backed by coal and gas as evening demand peaks at 125 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 24%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 15%
65%
Renewable share
14.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.8 GW
Solar
48.8 GW
Total generation
+0.2 GW
Net export
125.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.2°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95% / 182.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
241
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; hard coal 4.0 GW sits just right of centre-left as a smaller coal plant with two rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 5.8 GW occupies the centre as two sleek combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 9.6 GW fills the right-centre background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades slowly turning in light wind; wind offshore 4.7 GW appears in the far right distance as a row of turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey sea inlet; solar 11.8 GW is rendered as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground and middle ground, their surfaces reflecting only the dull grey sky, no direct sunlight glinting; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a compact wood-chip-fed plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard at the far left edge; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a turbine house visible along a river in the lower foreground. The time is 18:00 in mid-May—dusk is beginning with a fading orange-red glow barely visible along the low western horizon, the upper sky darkening to slate grey under 95% cloud cover, creating a heavy oppressive atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 13°C spring evening; vegetation is fresh green but muted under the overcast. Light wind barely stirs the grass. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich, deep colour palette of greys, muted greens, amber horizon light, and industrial ochres—with visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower hyperbolic curve, every PV panel frame. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale but applied to the modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels, no human figures.